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Alice Walker has written of unfairness in many manners ; Celia ‘s battles with her hubby in The Color Purple ; Olivia ‘s unfairness of female Circumcision in Olivia ; and the Old Woman in The Welcome Table. Her unfairness was non simply racial but besides classist. The Old Woman is a reminder to the…

Relevance of The Tempest in the Modern World The Tempest, a pastoral tragicomedy written by William Shakespeare in the Renaissance period around 1611, presents a unique challenge in interpreting its original intent versus how it is understood today, almost four centuries later. The way women are depicted in such older plays like The Tempest would…

Every time I read the opening of Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” I am reminded of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. In Stravinsky’s work, the rebirth offered by spring is presented as being violent and painful, much like Eliot’s “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land” (Eliot, lines 2-3). Indeed, the opening seven lines…

An era of advancement of human thinking was mainly personal as people started to learn a lot about themselves and about the world around them, and we began to understand how we came to be on this world. This is when we experienced the changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to this time. People started…

During act 3, scene 3, the full extent of Iago’s evil flourish is realised as he proceeds to have a malignant and cancerous effect on Othello and his relationship with Desdemona. During this time, he also builds bridges with many of the other characters, before deceiving and betraying them. All of this makes him one…

The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and cinema of a certain era. The epic poems, The Iliad and Odyssey, give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. By reading the two “novels,” the reader is able to experience the three thousand years…

The Movie Jindabyne, directed by Ray Lawrence is to say the least an intriguing text, based on Stewart Kane, an irishmen living in the Australian town in NSW of Jindabyne, who goes on a fishing trip in an isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a dead young indigenous…

That year, the harvest was mournful and brought many farmers to tears as they unearthed the wretched and decaying yams. In the midst of it all, one man took his own life by tying his cloth to a tree and hanging himself. Okonkwo carried the memory of that tragic year with him for the rest…

The books Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Left Hand of Darkness provide insights into the essence of humanity and truth. Humanity refers to the collective condition, quality, or fact of being human. Truth encompasses the current state, past events, and future occurrences, remaining unaffected by personal viewpoints. These literary works demonstrate humans’ interactions with themselves, friends,…

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. force. bias and hatred interfere with love and felicity. This is brought approximately through every bit love as a cause of force. the struggle between this person and society and the thought of destiny this shown in the dance hall scene and the fight scene. A scene that explores the…